Mettersi in coda
January 21st, 2009
More Britons than Americans died on Titanic ‘because they queued’
By Kathy Marks
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
British passengers on the Titanic died in disproportionate numbers because they queued politely for lifeboats while Americans elbowed their way on, an Australian researcher believes.
David Savage, a behavioural economist at the Queensland University of Technology, studied four 20th-century maritime disasters to determine how people react in life and death situations. He concluded that, on the whole, behaviour is influenced by altruism and social norms, rather than a “survival of the fittest” mentality. However, on the Titanic he noted Americans were 8.5 per cent more likely to survive than other nationalities, while British passengers were 7 per cent less likely to survive.
[read more on The Independent]
Categories: London, UK | Tags: coda, queuing, UK | 6 Comments
